Hard drive - How do i clean up the C drive

[Guest MSExchange2003Student]

Hi all

 

I have 3 three partitions on my exchange server. Exc2003 SP2 and Win

Ser2003. The C drive was only made 11GB when the servers was setup but the D

and E drive is 55GB and 200GB respectively. The freen space on C cramped

from 3.41G to 2.59GB in 2 weeks time. How can i stop this as i heard

terrible stories when C run out of disk space. The C\windows shows Size

7,13GB and Size on Disk 5,60GB (whats the difference?). Any way that i can

get this folder smaller?

 

Any way that i can take some of the space of the bigger drives and add it to

the smaller one. They did build RAID 5 into the servers. Will this

technology cater for this type of scenatio or must i make masnually

provision for it?

[Guest Oliver Moazzezi]

Re: Hard drive - How do i clean up the C drive

 

Are you saying C D and E are all logical partitions of one RAID5 volume?

 

and where's the page file?

 

Oliver

[Guest MSExchange2003Student]

Re: Hard drive - How do i clean up the C drive

 

 

"Oliver Moazzezi" <o.moazzeziNO@SPAMfreenet.co.uk> wrote in message

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> Are you saying C D and E are all logical partitions of one RAID5 volume?

Yes, i think so.

>

> and where's the page file?

How do i check this?

>

> Oliver

Thanks for replying.

>

>

[Guest Oliver Moazzezi]

Re: Hard drive - How do i clean up the C drive

 

Hi,

 

http://www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.htm

 

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d9dd689e-6a51-4751-bb28-bf2ab3a78c3c.aspx

 

Be aware if moving your pagefile away from C:\ totally you will lose the

ability to do a mem dump, if this is ever required after a BSOD then you can

create one back on C:\

 

Oliver

[Guest MSExchange2003Student]

Re: Hard drive - How do i clean up the C drive

 

Hi

 

Based on this info i assume what you are trying to tell me is to move my

pagefile away from the C drive. Do i need to do this after business hours.

Will the databse be accessible still and poeple connected to their

mailboxes?

 

This is a question more for the WINDOWS EXPERTS : Is there anyway that i can

take some of the "space" from the other 2 drives and add it to my C-drive

without have to rebuildt the entire server.

 

Thanks Oliver for the help this far

 

"Oliver Moazzezi" <o.moazzeziNO@SPAMfreenet.co.uk> wrote in message

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> Hi,

>

> http://www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.htm

>

> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d9dd689e-6a51-4751-bb28-bf2ab3a78c3c.aspx

>

> Be aware if moving your pagefile away from C:\ totally you will lose the

> ability to do a mem dump, if this is ever required after a BSOD then you

> can create one back on C:\

>

> Oliver

>

>

>

[Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Re: Hard drive - How do i clean up the C drive

 

MSExchange2003Student <exchangestudent@newsgroups.com> wrote:

> Hi all

>

> I have 3 three partitions on my exchange server. Exc2003 SP2 and Win

> Ser2003. The C drive was only made 11GB when the servers was setup

> but the D and E drive is 55GB and 200GB respectively. The freen space

> on C cramped from 3.41G to 2.59GB in 2 weeks time. How can i stop

> this as i heard terrible stories when C run out of disk space. The

> C\windows shows Size 7,13GB and Size on Disk 5,60GB (whats the

> difference?). Any way that i can get this folder smaller?

>

> Any way that i can take some of the space of the bigger drives and

> add it to the smaller one. They did build RAID 5 into the servers.

> Will this technology cater for this type of scenatio or must i make

> masnually provision for it?

 

Try something like TreeSize Pro (JAM software) or similar....to find out

what's taking up the space & either move or delete it. For example, you can

move the $NTUNINSTALL.... subfolders from %windir% to another volume.

 

11GB is pretty small, so you might actually want to consider resizing the

partition, if you have any space to spare - I believe Acronis makes a server

partition management product.

[Guest Oliver Moazzezi]

Re: Hard drive - How do i clean up the C drive

 

> This is a question more for the WINDOWS EXPERTS : Is there anyway that i

> can

> take some of the "space" from the other 2 drives and add it to my C-drive

> without have to rebuildt the entire server.

 

Moving the pagefile will possibly ask you to reboot (depending on your

current pagefile configuration)

 

There are third party products that will resize your partitions

 

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=partition+resizing+tools&meta=

 

Also see if IIS or SMTP is logging to your C:\ drive, and consider removing

any redundant $uninstall folders that are no longer needed.

 

Oliver

[Guest MSExchange2003Student]

Re: Hard drive - How do i clean up the C drive

 

 

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

<lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmailatyahoo.com> wrote in message

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> MSExchange2003Student <exchangestudent@newsgroups.com> wrote:

>> Hi all

>>

>> I have 3 three partitions on my exchange server. Exc2003 SP2 and Win

>> Ser2003. The C drive was only made 11GB when the servers was setup

>> but the D and E drive is 55GB and 200GB respectively. The freen space

>> on C cramped from 3.41G to 2.59GB in 2 weeks time. How can i stop

>> this as i heard terrible stories when C run out of disk space. The

>> C\windows shows Size 7,13GB and Size on Disk 5,60GB (whats the

>> difference?). Any way that i can get this folder smaller?

>>

>> Any way that i can take some of the space of the bigger drives and

>> add it to the smaller one. They did build RAID 5 into the servers.

>> Will this technology cater for this type of scenatio or must i make

>> masnually provision for it?

>

> Try something like TreeSize Pro (JAM software) or similar....to find out

> what's taking up the space & either move or delete it. For example, you

> can move the $NTUNINSTALL.... subfolders from %windir% to another volume.

 

OK, thanks i will move the $NTUNINSTALL folders to another drive. This won't

give me issues hey?

>

> 11GB is pretty small, so you might actually want to consider resizing the

> partition, if you have any space to spare - I believe Acronis makes a

> server partition management product.

Yes, i don't know why they made it that small. If i use a pertition

management system do i need to partition my whole server and configure again

or can i do it on a system that are runing live and keep evrything installed

:-)

>

>

[Guest MSExchange2003Student]

Re: Hard drive - How do i clean up the C drive

 

 

"Oliver Moazzezi" <o.moazzeziNO@SPAMfreenet.co.uk> wrote in message

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>

>> This is a question more for the WINDOWS EXPERTS : Is there anyway that i

>> can

>> take some of the "space" from the other 2 drives and add it to my C-drive

>> without have to rebuildt the entire server.

>

> Moving the pagefile will possibly ask you to reboot (depending on your

> current pagefile configuration)

>

> There are third party products that will resize your partitions

>

> http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=partition+resizing+tools&meta=

>

> Also see if IIS or SMTP is logging to your C:\ drive, and consider

> removing any redundant $uninstall folders that are no longer needed.

 

How do i change the path where IIS and SMTP logg to?

 

Can i just move all the $uninstall folders to a different location or can

only certain ones be moved?

>

> Oliver

>

[Guest Oliver Moazzezi]

Re: Hard drive - How do i clean up the C drive

 

> Can i just move all the $uninstall folders to a different location or can

> only certain ones be moved?

 

Sorry didn't see this mate,

 

Removing these means you can't unistall updates to your computer. What I do

is remove the ones that are a certain age, say 3-6 months old. As you will

usually only unistall recent hotfixes.

 

Before you do that above think long and hard about how long you want to go

back too. If you have years worth you could play it safe and delete anything

12 months +

 

Oliver